标题: 艾伦-格罗斯曼 诗人和文学评论家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-4-15 21:07 标题: 艾伦-格罗斯曼 诗人和文学评论家 Allen Grossman
Poet and Literary Critic | Class of 1989
Title
Poet and Literary Critic
Location
Waltham, Massachusetts
Age
57 at time of award
Deceased
June 27, 2014
Area of Focus
Poetry, Literary History and Criticism
Published August 1, 1989
ABOUT ALLEN'S WORK
Allen Grossman is a poet, a literary critic, and a teacher.
Grossman is distinguished by his quietly luminous lyric poems. He is the author of 10 books of poetry, including A Harlot’s Hire (1959), The Recluse (1965), And the Dew Lay All Night Upon My Branch (1974), Of the Great House (1982), The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected (1979-1991) (1991), How to Do Things with Tears (2001) and Sweet Youth (2002). He is the author of The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers (1991) and The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle (1997). He has also written essays on Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, and Abraham Lincoln.
BIOGRAPHY
Grossman taught at Brandeis University (1957-1991), where he was the Paul E. Prosswimmer Professor of Poetry and General Education. He was a visiting Professor at the Universitat HaNegev (1971) and the Pearl Andelson Sherry Visiting Poet at the University of Chicago (2004). Since 1991, he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.
Grossman received a B.A. (1949) and an M.A. (1956) from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. (1960) from Brandeis University.